Chelsea Harvey covers climate science for Climatewire. She tracks the big questions being asked by researchers and explains what's known, and what needs to be, about global temperatures. Chelsea began writing about climate science in 2014. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Popular Science, Men's Journal and others.
This year is on track to be the fourth-hottest on record as temperatures shatter records around the world this summer, according to scientists. And researchers aren't expecting a reprieve anytime soon.
Add these to the list of surprising possible consequences of climate change: more fatal car crashes and tainted food supplies on hot days.
Scientists agree that climate change is exacerbating California's wildfires. But people help intensify blazes in other ways, making it notoriously difficult to predict the location and strength of future fires.
A widely debated geoengineering proposal may not be the climate solution some have hoped for — at least when it comes to safeguarding global food security.
From record-breaking heat waves to major declines in sea ice, the Arctic is seeing some of the most dramatic climate change of any region on Earth. That may be influenced by a warming Pacific Ocean, new research suggests.